PLIN043 Child Language Acquisition and Child Language Corpora, Pt.I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Linda Krahula Doleží, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Hladká, Dr.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Thursday 15:50–17:25 G13
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the seminar we will focus on the process of language acquisition from several different perspectives. First, main approaches to language acquisition – special nativist and „non-nativist“ will be discussed. Second, attention will be paid to the acquisition processes of language phenomena in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax. Besides L1 acquisition (mother tongue) we will also deal with L2 acquisition (foreign languages) and pay special attention to bilingualism and other types of „unusual“ language development (acquisition in subjects with hearing and sight impairment, subjects with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome etc.). Furthermore, possible methods of language acquisition research and their contribution to other areas of interest will be discussed. Corpora of child language, i. e. CHILDES, and the possibilities they offer for the child language research will be presented. The aim of the seminar is not only to get acquainted with the process of language acquisition from the psycholinguistic point of view but also to stress the close interconnection of language acquisition with other disciplines dealing with the acquisition of language.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction – organization of the seminar, introduction into language acquisition, introduction into the basic approaches to L1 acquisition.
  • 2. Methods of language acquisition research.
  • 3. Child language corpora.
  • 4. Acquisition of phonology and morphology.
  • 5. Acquisition of lexicon.
  • 6. Acquisition of syntactic phenomena.
  • 7. Bilingualism – simultaneous aqcuisition of two (and more) languages, second language acquisition.
  • 8. Acquisition in subjects with hearing and sight impairments.
  • 9. Acquisition in subjects with Down syndrome and Williams Syndrome.
  • 10. Conclusion – summary, discussion – language acquisition and interdisciplinarity.
Literature
  • PINKER, Steven. Jazykový instinkt : jak mysl vytváří jazyk. Translated by Markéta Hofmeisterová. Vydání první. Praha: Dybbuk, 2009, 550 stran. ISBN 9788074380068. info
  • PINKER, Steven. Slová a pravidlá : zložky jazyka. Translated by Viktor Krupa. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2003, 415 s. ISBN 8071494879. info
  • CHOMSKY, Noam. On nature and language. Edited by Adriana Belletti - Luigi Rizzi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 206 s. ISBN 0-521-01624-X. info
  • The Handbook of child language. Edited by Brian MacWhinney - Paul Fletcher. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, x, 786. ISBN 0631184058. info
  • NEBESKÁ, Iva. Úvod do psycholingvistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: H & H, 1992, 127 s. info
  • PAČESOVÁ, Jaroslava. Řeč v raném dětství. 1. vyd. V Brně: Univerzita J.E. Purkyně, 1979, 170 s. URL info
  • OHNESORG, Karel. Naše dítě se učí mluvit. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1976. info
  • CHOMSKY, Noam. Language and mind. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972, xii, 194 s. ISBN 0-15-549257-8. info
  • CHOMSKY, Carol. The acquisition of syntax in children from 5 to 10. Pbk ed. Cambridge: M. I. T. Press, 1971, 126 s. : i. ISBN 0-262-03033-0. info
  • OHNESORG, Karel. Druhá fonetická studie o dětské řeči. Vydání první. Brno: Universita v Brně s podporou Ministerstva školství a kultury, 1959, 161 stran. URL info
  • OHNESORG, Karel. Étude phonétique sur le Langage de l'Enfant. Praha: Nákladem Filosofické fakulty University Karlovy, 1948, 178 s. info
  • OHNESORG, Karel. O mluvním vývoji dítěte. Vydání první. V Praze: Jednota českých filologů, 1948, 67 stran. info
  • ČÁDA, František. Studium řeči dětské. 2, Vývoj dětské zásoby slovní (Přív.) : Studium řeči dětské. 1, Povšechné otázky o vývoji mluvy dětské (ZPřív.). Praha: Dědictví Komenského, 1908. info
Teaching methods
Reading, discussion, working with child language database
Assessment methods
Active participation, presentation
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2015.
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